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Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Mapping the new economy

Please join the Real Economy Lab, the Next System Project and the New Economy Coalition on December 14 at 9am PT, noon ET, 5pm GMT for an interactive webinar discussion on mapping the next system.

The inability of traditional politics and policies to address
fundamental challenges has fueled an extraordinary amount of
experimentation, generating increasing numbers of sophisticated and
thoughtful initiatives that build from the bottom and begin to suggest
new possibilities for addressing deep social, economic and ecological
problems. Thus we encounter the caring economy, the sharing economy, the provisioning economy, the restorative economy, the regenerative economy, the sustaining economy, the collaborative economy, the solidarity economy, the steady-state economy, the gift economy, the resilient economy, the participatory economy, the new economy, and the many, many organizations engaged in related activities.

There are calls for a Great and Just Transition, or for reclamation
of the Commons. Many of these approaches already have significant
constituencies and work underway. Creative thinking by researchers and
engaged scholars is also contributing to the ferment. Although they vary
widely in emphases and approaches, there is a good deal of commonality.
These movements seek an economy that gives true priority to people,
place, and planet.

Taking the next step in collective development will require better
information on the array of organizations and initiatives active in this
space as well as efforts to identify potential areas of cooperation and
collaboration. Beyond that loom questions of scale and replicability.
The Real Economy Lab (REL) has been surveying the landscape and
identifying the linkages and is seeking to provide an interactive
platform where the cumulative knowledge, aims, and resources of these
movements can be drawn together in order to seek common ground and drive
coordinated action.
In this webinar REL will present their work to date and invite you to
join them and a panel of leading thinkers and practitioners in
discussing these issues. We will hear about the work of REL as a
connector of change makers in the next economy space, working to raise
awareness and understanding of new economy theory and practice and help
connect the thinkers and doers in this world for collaboration and
movement building. REL will explain its theory of change and unique role
in this evolving new economy ecosystem and walk us through one of their
core tools, the mindmapping of the next economy ecosystem.